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    Anyone know what breed this pullet is?

    I ordered a hatchery choice rare breed assortment from MPC a couple of months ago (hatch date was 8/21/12). I've been able to identify almost all of the breeds, but this one is particularly giving me trouble. Having scoured picture after picture, I'm having a terrible time finding a match. I'm...
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    Looking for a non-traumatic way to euthanize my injured rooster -- suggestions?

    He's had a leg injury for quite some time and his condition keeps worsening. My kids are crushed that it's time to let him go. This is not helped by the fact that this injury was caused by a hired carpenter who was seen deliberately throwing a board at him (we'd told this man multiple times that...
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    The importance of air cells... I really need advice from anyone and everyone on how to salvage a cou

    My Cream Legbar eggs are eight days into incubation. They've been on an egg turner the entire time. Last night I candled and realized that, of the six I started with, three appeared to be developing nicely. Then I held them up to my brighter candling contraption and realized that two of these...
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    Looking for: La Fleche, Standard White Faced Black Spanish, Standard Silkie (in U.S.)

    If you have any of these breeds, or know someone who does, I am terribly wanting to have some. Particularly interested in obtaining eggs (or chicks) from someone with friendly -- rather than flightly -- birds, but am having a hard enough time finding them that I am willing to work with whatever...
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    Setting eggs August 2 -- anyone else?

    Apologies if a thread has been started and I missed it. I'd love to have some company as I wait. Tomorrow I will be setting 12 Black Copper Marans, 12 Wheaten Marans, and 4-6 Cream Legbars. I am still waiting for the WMs and CLs to arrive, but have had the BCMs since yesterday and don't want...
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    Handling Hardware Cloth. I can tell you how NOT to do it.

    So, um, how might someone interested in cutting hardware cloth so that it ends up flat and tidy go about doing so? Having left enough DNA along the jagged edges that I could, at the very least, be convicted for being too thickheaded to purchase work gloves and proper snips, I wanna learn to do...
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    A Query for Experienced Hova-Bator Hoverers (Please, share your wisdom!)

    So, here's me. Although I read like crazy, my experience is quite limited. This is some background, which you can skip over, if you're not interested, and just get to the questions: My first attempt at hatching eggs was a few years ago. I ordered five eggs off ebay and some sort of mini...
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    Letting shipped eggs "settle"?

    I see this advice everywhere: let shipped eggs settle 12-24 hours before placing in the incubator. Although I can (kind of) understand the reasoning behind it, I also hate the idea of letting the eggs sit around aging for those extra hours -- and wonder why they can't do their settling while...
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    A question about NPIP

    I am fairly new to keeping chickens, but at some point in the future would like to have my flock certified. Unfortunately, I have not kept meticulous records up to now and am fairly certain that one of the recent sources I purchased hatching eggs from was not certified. As NPIP requires that I...
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